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Friday, June 29, 2012

I just realized that we've never done a "Meet a New Clay" for La Doll clay. This is one of my favorite air-dry clays, so shame on me! ;-)

LaDoll, distributed by Activa, is the doll artist's choice for excellence with its mixture of pumice, talc, small amounts of paper pulp, and additional binders. Extremely pliant, it can be worked indefinitely by keeping it moist. It will adhere to any core material (wire, mesh, rigid wrap, paper, glass, plastic, wood, Styrofoam, and more) and can be stamped, carved, or sculpted with exceptional detail. It can be drilled,

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Those of us who have been aware of the pleasures of working with air-dry clay may soon by joined by the uninitiated due to Martha Stewart's new line of Crafter's Clay, molds and tools. Believe it or not, many people are still under the impression that ALL air-dry clays are a kid's product. *sigh* We know that is not so, don't we! Just one look at the professional work of air-dry clay artists like Hannie Sarris, Guilherme

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Well, it seems I've taken a 6 month vacation from posting here at New Clay News! I didn't realize that it's been so long....my apologies, I've really been busy. Been involved in writing a book about the history of our town and spent some time in the hospital, among other things.

The book draft is now at the publisher and my health is doing OK, so maybe I can get back into playing with clay and into the old routine of posting often. Let's start with catching up on some of the newest tutorials posted over at my Air Dry Clay Tutorial Directory.

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The NEW CLAY NEWS is about the new no-bake, air-dry clays that are rapidly gaining in popularity. We'll discuss commercial clays such as Creative Paperclay & LaDoll and homemade clays such as cold porcelain. A vast collection of tutorials using air-dry clays is on our other site airdryclay.blogspot.com. At NEW CLAY NEWS we'll feature product information and show off work created by artists using the new clays.

Due to it's popularity, we'll probably talk more about sculpting and creating art dolls than anything else (but my mind will often wander to other creative areas!

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